The key bit of the text emphasizes the European Commission should be “objective, fair, impartial and fact-based” and guarantee “non-discrimination” when triggering the mechanism to block EU funding…
Read more EU approves €50B Ukraine aid as Viktor Orbán foldsEuropean leaders have approved the opening of accession negotiations for Ukraine, European Council President Charles Michel announced Thursday. The announcement comes at a critical time for Ukraine as…
Read more EU leaders approve Ukraine accession talks, bypassing OrbánThe prime ministers of Spain, Belgium, Ireland and Malta have called on European Council President Charles Michel to have a “serious debate” this week about the Israel-Hamas conflict…
Read more 4 EU countries urge leaders’ summit to demand Gaza cease-firePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regularly pushes the EU to the cliff edge, but diplomats are panicking…
Read more Putin’s buddy Orbán pushes EU to the brink over UkraineWhen the EU and Canada meet for talks this week, their encounter will be calm, pleasant and even, in the words of one EU diplomat, “just plain boring.”…
Read more Trump looms over EU-Canada summitPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — When EU digital chief Věra Jourová sat down in Beijing with a senior Chinese official in…
Read more Deal over dim sum: China caves to EU on data to keep investors sweetIsrael expanded its military operations in northern Gaza, including bombardments that cut off communications and internet connections, as military officials suggested an anticipated ground offensive against the Hamas…
Read more Gaza offensive in ‘next stage,’ Israel says, as bombing causes blackoutBRUSSELS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and join a meeting of NATO defense ministers…
Read more Zelenskyy arrives in Brussels for surprise visit ahead of NATO meetingPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. At least Europe no longer has to endure that hackneyed Henry Kissinger quip about whom to call…
Read more Europe’s power outage: How Israel-Hamas war exposed EU’s irrelevancePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Top officials from the United States and the EU met with their Russian counterparts for undisclosed emergency…
Read more EU, Russia and US held secret talks days before Nagorno-Karabakh blitzA row between EU and Latin American countries over how — or even whether — to mention the war in Ukraine risks turning what was meant to be the…
Read more Russia’s war in Ukraine gatecrashes EU-Latin America reunionPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The ghosts of colonial history returned to haunt European and Latin American leaders at their summit in…
Read more Why Latin America still won’t condemn Putin’s war in UkraineAnkara hasn’t seen sufficient progress from Sweden to support its application to join NATO, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned U.S. President Joe Biden in a phone call…
Read more Sweden still not ready for NATO, Erdoğan tells BidenIt’s meant to be a legally binding deal that could prevent the next pandemic. Originally proposed by European Council President Charles Michel in the worst days of the…
Read more How countries are throwing away their best chance to prevent the next pandemicPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — In a ceremony of pageantry, quirks and ancient tradition, King Charles III, Britain’s 62nd monarch,…
Read more King Charles III crowned in Westminster AbbeyBRUSSELS — Just when you thought Europe’s China policy could not be more disunited, the two most powerful countries of the European Union are now also at odds over whether…
Read more Europe’s disunity over China deepensPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The EU’s joint presidents flew to last year’s U.N. climate talks in Egypt aboard a private jet,…
Read more EU chiefs flew to UN climate talks in private jetPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Kaja Kallas had been dreading the call. “I woke at 5 o’clock,” the Estonian prime minister recalled…
Read more ‘Oh my God, it’s really happening’Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has a tight two-year timetable for securing EU membership that is bound…
Read more Ukraine wants to join EU within two years, PM saysPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The “Qatargate” corruption scandal rocking the European Parliament is “dramatic and damaging for the credibility of the…
Read more Corruption scandal ‘damaging’ to EU credibility, says Charles Michel
